Winter Creek Strategic
Harnessing online community-building methodology to optimize remote employee retention.
Welcome
Our Story
Winter Creek Keystones
Your Story
Winter Creek Strategic is the product of our collective expertise in the unique challenges faced by remote teams. Over three decades of profound societal change, we have worked across international boundaries, within a mosaic of cultures, unifying disparate individual strengths to create cohesive, resilient teams.
We emphasize improving o
Winter Creek Strategic is the product of our collective expertise in the unique challenges faced by remote teams. Over three decades of profound societal change, we have worked across international boundaries, within a mosaic of cultures, unifying disparate individual strengths to create cohesive, resilient teams.
We emphasize improving organizational cost efficiencies with practical strategies to attract, motivate, and retain outstanding remote employees. By integrating employee strengths and aligning these to shared organizational objectives, we provide clients with dynamic roadmaps for maintaining resilient, remote teams.
Your Story
Winter Creek Keystones
Your Story
You lead a partially or fully remote team. Employee engagement, motivation, and retention are key priorities for you. Of vital importance is ensuring that your employees bring their individual strengths to a team that aligns decisively with your organizational objectives and brand.
You require sensible, hands-on strategies to maximize cos
You lead a partially or fully remote team. Employee engagement, motivation, and retention are key priorities for you. Of vital importance is ensuring that your employees bring their individual strengths to a team that aligns decisively with your organizational objectives and brand.
You require sensible, hands-on strategies to maximize cost efficiencies. By attracting employees who thrive in virtual team situations, you minimize your turnover while strengthening your remote team’s cooperative capacity. As your organizational realities evolve, so too will those of your adaptable, resilient remote team.
Winter Creek Keystones
Winter Creek Keystones
Winter Creek Keystones
While every situation is unique and dynamic, there are distinct patterns in the challenges of remote team management. Every month, we reflect on one of these patterns and some useful strategies to motivate remote employee teams for enhanced organizational strength. Wherever you are, we trust that you will find these brief strategic outli
While every situation is unique and dynamic, there are distinct patterns in the challenges of remote team management. Every month, we reflect on one of these patterns and some useful strategies to motivate remote employee teams for enhanced organizational strength. Wherever you are, we trust that you will find these brief strategic outlines useful for your specific situation.
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Who We Are
Alexandra Ballard, BA, MA, CPHR
Julia Aspinall, BA in General Psyc.
Julia Aspinall, BA in General Psyc.
(Principal and Founder)
In addition to serving as the CEO of an Australian financial services training organization, Alexandra has worked at the C-Suite level in diverse cultures across four continents leading on-site, hybrid, and fully remote teams for large and small organizations. Over the past 30 years, she has worked in most core o
(Principal and Founder)
In addition to serving as the CEO of an Australian financial services training organization, Alexandra has worked at the C-Suite level in diverse cultures across four continents leading on-site, hybrid, and fully remote teams for large and small organizations. Over the past 30 years, she has worked in most core organizational areas including Marketing, Sales, Human Resources, Investor Relations, Client Services, and Corporate Strategy.
Alexandra’s key strategic skills are in the areas of conflict resolution, human resource management (particularly in the areas of motivation and engagement), organizational change and renewal, branding and marketing, cross-cultural communications, technical writing, and new business development.
Alexandra received her BA (Honours) in History from St Lawrence University in New York and her MA in International Affairs (Conflict Resolution) from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa. She is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors Course™ and completed the Human Resources Management Certificate at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. She has undertaken advanced professional training in negotiation, business administration, corporate governance, and human resources management.
Alexandra’s recreational passions include sailing, travel, reading, creative writing, and learning new languages.
Julia Aspinall, BA in General Psyc.
Julia Aspinall, BA in General Psyc.
Julia Aspinall, BA in General Psyc.
(Brand and Client Experience Manager)
Drawing on her significant online community-building experience in the gaming industry as a professional, partnered broadcaster, Julia is the creative force behind Winter Creek Strategic’s brand identity. Julia is a gifted visual artist who enjoys deploying her distinctive skillset to support clients
(Brand and Client Experience Manager)
Drawing on her significant online community-building experience in the gaming industry as a professional, partnered broadcaster, Julia is the creative force behind Winter Creek Strategic’s brand identity. Julia is a gifted visual artist who enjoys deploying her distinctive skillset to support clients in articulating their virtual team community engagement needs in the context of their organizational strategy.
With an academic background in Psychology, Julia contributes her profound understanding of the challenges of virtual work to develop compelling client solutions that reflect dynamic market trends.
Julia’s strategic skillset extends beyond conventional communications design with a particular interest in implementing digital technologies for intuitive visual communications. Her proficiency in crafting compelling narratives is reflected in delivering consistent results that resonate with target audiences. With careful collaboration that emphasizes active listening to clients’ individual challenges, Julia designs intuitive user experiences for remote teams within the shared framework of a carefully aligned, visually appealing corporate identity.
Out of work, Julia enjoys painting, learning languages (specifically Dutch), and spending time with her family and two mischievous (but adorable) rabbits: Ori and Beatrix.
Cross-cultural connections
North America
North America
North America
Europe
North America
North America